COLUMBIA, SC (December 6, 2023) – A Midlands husband and wife had dramatically different reactions to winning the Lottery. The couple was sitting in their car when the husband scratched off a $300,000 lottery win. He stayed seated. His wife did not.
“When I told her, she jumped out and ran around the car,” the husband told South Carolina Education Lottery officials. “She was more excited than me.”
The scene played out in the parking lot of the Golden Pantry on Capital Way in Springfield where the couple bought the $10 scratch-off. The husband says he’d bought a Kings Ransom ticket before and wanted to try another one.
“It was my turn to win,” he said. “I’ve paid everything off, and I’m going to travel with my wife.”
The win leaves one top prize of $300,000 in the Kings Ransom game at odds of 1 in 900,000.
Golden Pantry in Springfield received a commission of $3,000 for selling the claimed ticket.
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